I am a serious Ubuntu and OS X user. By Ubuntu 11.10, Unity is introduced. To me, I saw serious similarity between Unity and Aqua of OS X. So my suggestion here is (although a little but absurd) fork Unity and tweak it into a open-source Aqua clone.
Current UI shipped with GNUstep still used the old design of NeXT, which seemed a little bit outdated to me. Given the "artistic render" of what you hope Étoilé look like at 0.5, I think maybe Unity could be a good start point. Some existing features of Unity can be leveraged and modified into clones of OS X features on both looks (as they already are) as well as functionality. Unity already have a unified menu bar we can leverage as well as a Dock clone. Those can be used directly. Its Dashboard can be modified into a clone of OS X Launchpad, if we can make it recognize application bundles installed in default places. The main apparent missing piece is a clone of Finder (or a new version of GWorkspace that looks like Finder). So how is your opinion on forking Unity and modify it into a better-looking GUI for Étiolé?
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